“Happy Birthday” cards in shabby style

In our time, modern needlework techniques scrapbooking It is increasingly in demand, and products made using this technique are now the most common and widespread. You can make a bunch of different souvenirs and gifts for absolutely any occasion: a birthday is a card, box or envelope for money, the birth of a baby is a box, postcard or casket of mother’s treasures, a wedding is an album, postcard, envelope, wish book, and so on can be listed endlessly. Moreover, if you judge logically, you can do more than just present, and very necessary things and items for yourself and your family. Scrapbooking is a whole handicraft dynasty that has its own characteristics and styles. For example, the oldest style of scrapbooking called “shabby” is still popular today. And products made in the shabby chic style have such a feature as an old fashioned one, which exudes coziness and a homely atmosphere. There are a lot of styles, but we’ll still focus on shabby chic and look at a very gentle and interesting master class that will teach us how to make birthday cards.This is always a necessary thing, so it will be interesting for everyone to read it.

Will need

So, to make shabby cards we take:

Three sheets of cardboard of different colors, take red, soft pink and blue;
Scrappaper from sets called “Shabby” and “Ukraine” from the famous designer Evgenia Kurdibanovskaya;
Colored pictures with flowers and sweets;
Cotton lace in mint, pink and dark pink;
Artificial flowers: latex roses white, pink and green, poppies red and salad green, paper hydrangea flowers white-orange, white and green;
Bouquets of complex stamens are mother-of-pearl and with glitter in white, red, orange and mint;
Die-cut paper napkins mint, pink and red;
Cut out butterflies, three large and 6-7 small;
Stamped inscription in different colors “Happy Birthday”;
Artificial branches with buds of different colors;
Metal plain brads;
Double-sided tape and scissors;
Whatman paper A4 format;
Ruler and simple pencil;
Glue stick;
Small half beads of different pearl colors;
Ink pads for tinting green and burgundy;

Making a postcard in shabby style

Let's start with the basics of postcards, for this we take cardboard of three colors and cut out three rectangles 18.5 * 20 cm.

Now we fold each one in half and get three such bases.

Now we will cut out the lower bases. To do this, we measure and cut out two 9.5*18 cm rectangles for each postcard, so there are six in total.

For the front decoration, we cut out each postcard and need three more rectangles.

We have prepared everything, now we need to scratch all the rectangles along the edges, so to speak, make them old.

We immediately glue the rectangle onto the back sides of the postcard.

Also, for internal wishes, we need to glue white sheets of whatman paper, we also cut out three rectangles 9.5 * 18 cm. We tint the edges of each and glue them inside each card. We glue one small one onto the front rectangles.

We immediately estimate the design, glue a napkin on top, then two pictures at a time, shifting them a little. We do this on all three and sew each part separately, starting with a small rectangle.

Now we insert two branches onto each workpiece using brads. Now we glue these blanks onto our base. Separately sew the front and back sides of each postcard.